Oil-catcher.



J. E. LEBERMAN.

-0IL OATGHER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 23, 1911.

1,020,564. Patented Mar. 19, 1912.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH E. LEBERMAN, OF SI-IEBOYGAN, WISCONSIN.

OIL-CATCHER.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOSEPH E. LEBERMAN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Sheboygan, in the county of Sheboygan and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oil- Catchers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention consists in what is herein particularly set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claims of this specification, its object being to provide simple, economical and efficient oil-catchers for use in connection with shaft-hangers.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a side elevation of an oil-catcher in accordance with my invention applied to a shafthanger; Fig. 2, an end elevation of what is shown in Fig. 1 and'Fig. 3, a plan view of a blank for said catcher.

Referring by numerals to the drawings 4 indicates an angular cup having upwardly extending bifurcated ends constituting arms 5, designed to straddle the ends of a shafthanger, the branches 5' of each arm being fastened together by means of a headed bolt 6 engaged therewith, and a nut 7 run on the bolt, or by other suitable means. The bottom of the cup is provided with a drain opening and any suitable stopper may be employed to close the same, but I prefer to employ a pet-cock 8 fitted in said opening. The ends and their arm-extensions 5 of the cup are concavo-convex and preferably divergent for a portion of their length, but the bifurcated extremities of each arm are bent inward, as clearly shown in Fig. 1, the fashioning of said arms being such that they serve as fenders for oil thrown from the shaft-hanger from which said cup is suspended. The oil finds its way down the suspending arms into the cup from which it may be drained from time to time to prevent overflowing of said cup.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 23, 1911.

Patented Mar. 19, 1912.

Serial No. 635,031.

The herein described oil-catcher may be made from a single blank of sheet-metal, similar to the one shown by Fig. 3, suitably bent and soldered to form the cup 4, the arms 5 and their branches 5 of said cup being shaped to accord with what is stated in the foregoing description.

Iclaim:

1. An oil-catcher consisting of a cup having upwardly extending fender-arms inwardly bent at their upper ends and engageable with the ends of a shaft-hanger astraddle of the same.

2. An oil-catcher consisting of a cup having upwardly extending and upwardly forked fender-arms, their forked ends being inwardly bent, and means for fastening the forlcbranches of each arm together astraddle of a shaft-hanger.

3. An oil-catcher consisting of an angular cup having upwardly continued and divergent concavo-convex ends forked and inwardly extended at a predetermined distance above the cup, and means for fastening the branches of each arm together astraddle of the ends of a shaft-hanger.

4. An oil-catcher consisting of an angular cup having upwardly continued and divergent concavo-convex ends forked and inwardly bent at a predetermined distance above the cup, and bolts and nuts by which to fasten each pair of fork-branches together astraddle of a shaft-hanger.

5. An oil-catcher consisting of a cup having a suitably controlled bottom drain opening and provided with upwardly extending fender-arms engageable with the ends of a shaft-hanger astraddle of the same.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand at Sheboygan in the county of Sheboygan and State of VVisconsin in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH E. LEBERMAN.

W'itnesses:

CATHERINE TAnNU'rznR, OSCAR L. WOLTERS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of latents, Washington, D. G. 

